Wildlife Protection Act 1972 Questions and Answers

Answer: D

All four statements are true, so the answer is (a), (b), (c) and (d).

They restate Section 35 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972:

1. (a) Section 35(5): the boundaries of a National Park cannot be altered except on a resolution of the State Legislature (now also on the recommendation of the National Board for Wild Life).
2. (b) Section 35(6): no one may destroy, exploit or remove wildlife or destroy its habitat in a National Park except under a permit.
3. (c) Section 35(7): no grazing of livestock is permitted in a National Park.
4. (d) Section 35(1): the State Government may declare an area a National Park for its ecological, faunal, floral or geomorphological importance.

Each narrower option leaves out one of these provisions.

Answer: A

Section 38L provides for the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2006 inserted Chapter IVB, 'National Tiger Conservation Authority', into the 1972 Act. Section 38L constitutes the NTCA, chaired by the Union Minister of Environment and Forests, which took over the work of Project Tiger.

The Central Zoo Authority is constituted under section 38A (Chapter IVA, added in 1991), the National Board for Wild Life under section 5A, and community reserves under section 36C.

Answer: A

The notification of intention is issued under Section 35(1).

Section 35(1) of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 allows the State Government, where it considers an area of adequate ecological, faunal, floral, geomorphological or zoological significance, to declare by notification its intention to constitute it a National Park. The later subsections deal with specifying the boundaries, the inquiry into rights and the final declaration after rights are settled.

So 35(2), 35(3) and 35(4) are later steps in the same process, not the notification of intention.